An Andheri resident was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his wife and two-year-old son earlier this month. Officers at the D.N. Nagar police station, where the offence was registered, said Laxman Dhangar, 38, had initially filed a missing persons report saying his wife had left him and taken their son with her.
Police said Dhangar had approached D.N. Nagar police station on August 8 claiming his wife Parvati and son Akhil were missing since August 6. Accordingly, the police registered the complaint and began an investigation. On Friday afternoon, the Mumbai Police control room received a call that a body of an unidentified woman was lying near Khubchandani Hospital in Juhu Galli, Andheri. The police called Dhangar to identify the body, which he said was Parvati’s.
An officer investigating the case said, “Dhangar’s behaviour was suspicious and his version of the events on the day Parvati supposedly left him was found to be inconsistent during repeated questioning. Following sustained questioning, Dhangar finally confessed late on Friday to having strangled Parvati after an argument. He said he had dumped her body at the spot where it was found.”
When the police grilled Dhangar on Akhil’s whereabouts, he said he had thrown the child into a drain in Juhu the same night.
When the D.N. Nagar police contacted their counterparts at Juhu police station, they were informed that the body of a toddler had been found on August 7 in the drain mentioned by Dhangar. The body was identified as that of Akhil’s. Dhangar was subsequently arrested and charged with murder and destruction of evidence under the IPC.
D.N. Nagar police said after disposing of their bodies, Dhangar approached them with the false complaint to divert suspicion from himself. They said the accused, a resident of Dhangarwadi in Andheri, had married thrice. Parvati was his second wife, while the third has been identified as Ashamma. Police said Dhangar would shuttle between his residence and Ashamma’s, and Parvati was aware of his third marriage.
A police officer added, “Dhangar and Parvati married three years ago in his hometown in Karnataka. They shifted to Mumbai earlier this year, after which he married Ashamma. We are trying to ascertain a motive behind his crime.”
Dhangar’s behaviour was suspicious and his version of events on the day his wife left him were inconsistent
An officerD.N. Nagar police station
